Global South Anglican

The Primates’ Meeting emerges to be the only forum at this stage where the thinking and listening processes can take place. After all, the Provinces are autonomous; therefore only the Primates have the jurisdictional authority over their respective churches. There are three urgent issues that Global South Primates can work with Canterbury to promote unity in the Communion…

The August 2006 Fulcrum newsletter, ‘Founding of Fulcrum’, is now online here. A shorter summary version can be found here.

An insightful interview where Rowan Williams expresses his currrent thoughts on Communion issues. 

To break into the real life of the people – this is the mission task of the twenty-first century. Churches in Asia, Africa and Latin America need to wake up to their calling to shoulder this responsibility. Only then could the Christian faith become a truly universal faith, and indeed a world-affirming faith. The truth of the Gospel is more evangelical than what Evangelicals have understood it; more liberating that what the Liberals have insisted on; more catholic and historic than what the Anglo-Catholics have espoused. Churches in the Global South need to work towards extending our horizons of the Christian faith.

Evangelical communion is never merely synchronic; it is always also diachronic, involving a communion with past Christians in receiving from them the faith they have witnessed to and handing that faith on again to further generations. This is what is meant when we speak of the need to preserve “tradition”.

Read Professor Oliver O’Donovan’s August article at Fulcrum here. 

Is the Church in China finished with the Anglican Communion? I think not. For in an ironic way, Bishop Ting would see that the Anglican Church offers insight into an important area that many Anglicans have discarded.  I refer of course to the historic form of Christianity – its creeds, traditions, ministerial orders, and sober forms of worship.  Despite the rapid numerical growth, Protestant churches in China are still not organized as one Church in China.  Indeed, as Bishop K H Ting puts it: “The Bible unites us”; and sadly there may be little other than that.  Yet churches throughout the vast nation are not

A single request for alternate primatial oversight consolidating the requests of the dioceses of Fort Worth, San Joaquin, Central Florida, South Carolina, Dallas, Pittsburgh and Springfield has been forwarded to the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Living Church has learned.

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Let me say that we offered pastoral oversight to churches in America because they came to us. We did not go to them. My desire is always to help as many churches in America by giving them oversight as much as possible, but my recommendation is that a body is formed in America where these churches are, and we can strengthen this body to deal with their problems.

The Bishop of Texas, the Rt. Rev. Don A. Wimberly, is interested in assembling all members of the House of Bishops who are willing to stand firmly with the recommendations of the Windsor Report. In a letter dated July 28, Bishop Wimberly announced a consultation to be held Sept. 19-22 at Camp Allen near Navasota, Texas.

The Anglican Communion Instituite has reflected and given a fuller response to GC2006. It sums up the issues carefully and gives a the relevant background for the Windsor’s requests. 

If Canterbury can find a way to recognize the spiritual legitimacy of the claim of the Network Dioceses (and of the Network Parishes in Non-Network Dioceses) … then Canterbury sustains and renews his claim to be “gatherer” and “moral voice” of the Communion. To do this, he must bring along a strong majority of the Primates and of his own House of Bishops, for he is no pope. But do this he must. If he fails, any hope for a Communion-unifying solution slips away, and so does the shape and leadership of the Anglican Communion as we have known them. Our prayers are with Rowan Williams now more than ever. It is a kairos moment, a crossroads of Church history.

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